Thanks to several alert Dog Jaunt readers, I have seven scoop law signs to share with you, each a masterpiece of goofiness. Taking them in the order they arrived in my in-box, we start with a wholesome vision of family togetherness from Lime Kiln Park, on Washington state’s San Juan Island:

Thanks to Chandler for this one, and for several later ones from Nova Scotia

Halfway around the globe, reader Sarah took a moment from her day in the Kadiköy district of Istanbul and snapped this shot:

Even when I type all the accents in properly, Google Translate tells me this means “Bag with us, please hover for a Clean Environment”

Another spin and we’re in Shediac, New Brunswick:

This is an extremely odd sign — that disembodied hand! the beheaded dog! the slug reclining in the pan, unaware that he’s about to be pooped on!

Chandler sent this one to me as a birthday gift:

This sign is from Acadie, still (obviously) in the French-speaking part of the province. I admire the effort to capture the actual moment of pooping, but I have to say that that creature really looks more like a giant squirrel than a dog.

Near Fredericton, in the English-speaking part of the province, you’ll find this sign:

Seemingly straightforward, but note how the dog’s leash ends, spookily, in mid-air — and are the words “after pets” really necessary?

The sign, therefore, just means the area around the interpretive center is okay for leashed dogs to investigate — and the “scoop law” part of the message is conveyed by the presence of the poop bag dispenser.

I wind up with a gem of a sign, this time from Paris’s Jardins du Ranelagh, which we walked through on our way to the Musée Marmottan (home of a really delicious collection of Monet paintings, far from the hurdy-gurdy of the Musée d’Orsay).

Usually that top image, of a happy owner stepping out with his prancing dog, has an ugly red bar through it — but not in the Jardins du Ranelagh

I love this one not only because — for once! — leashed dogs are allowed in a Paris park (and it’s a very pretty one) but also because I share that dog’s fascination with what his owner is doing back there behind him. He’s using — well, what is he using? — a length of bent wire to maneuver three pieces of poop at once into a plastic grocery sack. No wonder he’s dropped his dog’s leash — he’s got no attention to spare for anything else.

Thank you so much for sending me these! I’m adding this post to Dog Jaunt’s scoop law sign collection — to see others, click on the “scoop law” tag below this post, or type “scoop law” in the search bone.

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